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From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	       gdb@sourceware.org,
	Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in commit messages
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 19:04:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioluao58.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140814132939.GH4924@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of	"Thu, 14 Aug 2014 06:29:39 -0700")

On Thursday, August 14 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> No, I strongly object to #5. The ChangeLog entries are part of
> the email to be sent along with the patch to be reviewed, We had
> that discussion many many years ago, and at the time, people
> wanted the CL entry in the email, rather than as a diff.

On Thursday, August 14 2014, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Again, I do think that having the CL entry in the commit message is
> useful, and I disagree with the idea of removing it from there.
> Imagine you are scanning the past changes, looking for what might
> have caused a behavior change. When using "git log", having the CL
> in there often helps.

Being the maintainer of GDB for RHEL, and having to deal with many
patches to backport, I second what Joel said.

I prefer CL messages to be included in the commit message (a la option
#1 in Gary's message), and I strongly prefer to have a good explanation
of what the patch does in the message too.

Cheers,

-- 
Sergio
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-14 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-14  8:32 Gary Benson
2014-08-14 12:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 13:15   ` Gary Benson
2014-08-14 13:25     ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 15:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-15  8:05       ` Gary Benson
2014-08-15  8:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-15 11:45           ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-03 20:54   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-09-03 21:22     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-09-03 22:18       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-04  9:06         ` Gary Benson
2014-09-04 14:23           ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2014-09-04 16:08             ` Doug Evans
2014-09-04 17:36               ` Gary Benson
2014-09-05 10:13                 ` Gary Benson
2014-09-05 16:43                   ` Doug Evans
2014-09-08  9:50                     ` Gary Benson
2014-09-08 13:08                       ` James Hogan
2014-09-08 13:21                         ` James Hogan
2014-09-08 13:24                         ` Joel Brobecker
2014-09-08 15:31                           ` Gary Benson
2014-09-09  8:51                           ` James Hogan
2014-09-09 16:25                             ` Doug Evans
2014-09-10 10:58   ` Pedro Alves
2014-09-10 16:12     ` Doug Evans
2014-09-10 16:28       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-09-15 10:30         ` Gary Benson
2014-09-15 12:45           ` Joel Brobecker
2014-09-15 15:30           ` Doug Evans
2014-09-15 16:05             ` Joel Brobecker
2014-09-15 17:47               ` Doug Evans
2014-09-16  9:31                 ` Gary Benson
2014-09-16 15:50                   ` Doug Evans
     [not found]                     ` <0CEE46EB9C50E44486A861D738D3E20645F67101@rsex2.realsil.com.cn>
2014-10-03 18:22                       ` GDB bugs Pedro Alves
2014-08-14 12:57 ` ChangeLogs in commit messages Mike Frysinger
2014-08-14 13:12   ` Gary Benson
2014-08-14 13:29     ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 13:39       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-08-14 13:48         ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 13:57           ` Andreas Schwab
2014-08-14 14:22             ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 14:45               ` Andreas Schwab
2014-08-14 15:01                 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 15:13                   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-08-14 15:22                     ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 15:44                       ` Andreas Schwab
2014-08-14 15:49                         ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-14 19:04       ` Sergio Durigan Junior [this message]
2014-08-15  8:48       ` Gary Benson
2014-08-15 12:11         ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-15 13:09           ` Gary Benson
2014-08-15 13:28             ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-15 15:02               ` Gary Benson
2014-08-15 15:27                 ` Andreas Arnez
2014-08-15 16:08                 ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-18  8:31                   ` Gary Benson
2014-08-18 14:54                     ` Doug Evans
2014-08-18 15:05                       ` Joel Brobecker
2014-08-18 15:27                         ` Gary Benson
2014-08-20 12:20                           ` Gary Benson
2014-08-14 16:22     ` Andreas Arnez
2014-08-14 13:23   ` Mike Frysinger
2014-08-14 13:36 ` Siva Chandra

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